Nurse Practitioners

Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, travel advice and vaccinations, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses offer appointments for long-term health conditions such as asthma and diabetes; cervical smears; smoking cessation; cryotherapy treatment (wart clinic) and health promotion.

To make sure that we provide the correct appointment length and to help the Practice Nurse prepare for your appointment, the receptionist may ask you for some additional information. Please help us to provide the right appointment for you by giving additional information if we ask for it.

Miss Briony Hume (f)

Practice Nurse BSc Hon, DipNursing, Indepenent Nurse Prescribing.

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Please make an appointment with the HCA for all routine blood tests, blood pressure monitoring, ECG, height, weight and urine checks.

Miss Liz Newman-Horwell (f)

Phlebotomists

Mrs Deidre E. Couper (f)

Practice Management

Mrs Anne Ross

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Administration

Mrs Avril Scott

Mrs Alison Macrae

Miss Linda Ross

Reception

Mrs Joan Grant

Mrs Deidre Couper

Miss Sandra Mackinnon

Mrs Fiona Ross

Mrs Avril Scott

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.